KRUPSKAYA AND LENIN TO LENIN’S MOTHER

Written:Written January 7, 1914Published:First published in the Fourth Edition of theCollected Works.

      Sent from Krakow to Vologda.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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DearMaria Alexandrovna,

AHappy New Year to you, Manyasha and Anya, with
all best wishes for everything that is good.

Wespent the European New Year’s Eve alone with
Volodya sitting over plates of curds, and the Russian New
Year’s Eve we shall not celebrate at all because Volodya
is going away for a month or six weeks to work in a
library.[1]I envy him a bit because our place is more like a backwoods
village than a town and I miss people quite a lot. There is
simply no one here to bother about and no one to take
care of.

Wedo not seem to be able to make acquaintances among
the local inhabitants.

Wintertried hard to get going here, Volodya went
skating three times and tempted me to buy skates, but the
weather suddenly turned warm, all the ice melted, and
today, for instance, there is a real smell of spring in the
air. Yesterday, too, was not at all like winter. Volodya
and I went for a long walk in the country and it was
fine.

That,then, is all our news. I embrace you fondly, Mother
sends regards.

Howare your eyes? Did Anya come as she intended to?

Yours,Nadya

Motherdearest,

Iembrace you fondly and wish you a Happy New Year—
you, and Manyasha and Anya!

Yours,V. U.

[1]Inmid-January 1914, Lenin left Krakow for Paris where he spoke
at a meeting of Bolsheviks on the intention of the International
Socialist Bureau to interfere in the affairs of the R.S.D.L.P.,
then at two memorial meetings dedicated to the events of January
9, 1905; he also delivered a lecture on the “Question of
Nationalities” in the Grand Hall of the Geographical Society. From Paris
Lenin went to Brussels to attend the Fourth Congress of the
Social-Democrats of the Latvian Area. He delivered there a
report on behalf of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. in
which he criticised the opportunist position of the Latvian
Social-Democrats on questions of the struggle against the
liquidators and took a firm stand against the conciliatory tendencies at
the congress. He delivered a lecture to the delegates on the question
of nationalities in which he outlined the theory and tactics of
the Bolsheviks in this field. After the congress Lenin lectured on
the same issue at Liege and Leipzig, returning to Krakow on
February 6, 1914.